The global MPI 2013 covers 104 countries which are home to 5.4 billion people, using 2010 population data. In 2013, we found that a total of 1.6 billion people are living in multidimensional poverty; more than 30% of people living in these countries. In 2013, we also analysed changes in MPI poverty for 22 countries from every region of the world.

These briefings summarise a number of analyses of the MPI figures published in the HDR 2013 and show how the MPI can be used.

• Alkire, S., Roche, J.M, Seth, S., (2013). 'Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013.' OPHI Policy Briefing 13, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. (8 pages)
• Alkire, S., Roche, J.M, Seth, S., (2013). 'Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2013.' OPHI Policy Briefing 17, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. (2 pages)
• Alkire, S., Roche, J.M, Seth, S., (2013). 'Identifying the ‘bottom billion’: Beyond national averages.' OPHI Briefing 14, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
• Alkire, S., Seth, S., (2013). 'Multidimensional poverty reduction in India 1999-2006: Slower progress for the poorest groups.' OPHI Briefing 15, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
• Alkire, S., Roche, J.M., (2013). 'How multidimensional poverty went down: Dynamics and comparisons.' OPHI Briefing 16, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
• Alkire, S., Santos, M.E., (2013). 'Measuring acute poverty in the developing world: Robustness and scope of the MPI', OPHI Working Paper 59, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
• Alkire, S., Seth, S., (2013). 'Multidimensional poverty reduction in India between 1999 and 2006: Where and how?', OPHI Working Paper 60, 2013. (Also published in World Development 72 (2015) 93-108).
• Alkire, S., Roche, J.M., Sumner, A., (2013). 'Where do the world’s multidimensionally poor people live?', OPHI Working Paper 61, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. 
• UNDP (United Nations Development Programme). 2013. Human Development Report 2013: The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World. New York.